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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Preston County, West Virginia. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The coal mining communities, or coal towns of McDowell County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were located in deep ravines that afforded direct access to the coal through the hillsides, allowing mined coal to be dropped or conveyed downhill to railway lines at the valley floor. [1]
Browns Lake in Faulkner County, Arkansas; Browns Lake in Miller County, Arkansas; Browns Lake (Idaho), a glacial lake in Elmore County, Idaho; Browns Lake, a lake in Scott County, Minnesota; Browns Lake (Washington), a lake in Washington; Browns Lake, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in Racine County, Wisconsin
The coal towns, or "coal camps" of Fayette County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were located in deep ravines that afforded direct access to the coal through the hillsides, allowing mined coal to be dropped or conveyed downhill to railway lines at the valley floor. [ 1 ]
Brown WV postmark with its now retired 26333 ZIP Code. It was in 1790 that the first white settlers took up permanent residence on Little Tenmile Creek at what would become the community of Brown. These were James Kelly (1760–1810) and his wife Elizabeth (Swiger) Kelly (1764–1824).
The W.H. Bickel Estate is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone mansion built between 1928 and 1930 on the outskirts of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The 1,800-square-foot (170 m 2 ) building has a rectangular main section and a wing to the East.
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Bayard is a town in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 200 at the 2020 census. [3] Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., [5] who later became a United States senator from Delaware (1923–1929). Bayard was founded on the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway as a coal ...